WW1 Centennial News: Episode #42 - Trading with the enemy | Mata Hari | Little companies flying high | Educating educators | Short Hairs | Kenneth Clarke | US Air Service Memorial
Summary: <br> Highlights<br> <br> Trading With The Enemy Act |@01:15<br> Mata Hari is executes - Mike Shuster |@06:10<br> Little companies big ideas - War in the Sky |@09:50<br> Gilder Lehrman Institute program - Tim Bailey |@14:30<br> Speaking WWI: “Short Hairs” |@ 21:20<br> 100 Cities / 100 Memorials genesis and future - Ken Clarke |@22:40<br> 100 Cities / 100 Memorials profile - Memorial to US Air Service - Michael O’neal and Robert Kasprzak |@30:35<br> Kiwis Commemorate Passchendaele |@37:00<br> Michigan sign WWI Centennial Commission into law |@39:00<br> Madame Curie in WWI |@39:40<br> <br> Opening<br> Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - It’s about WW1 THEN - what was happening 100 years ago this week - and it’s about WW1 NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration.<br> Today is October 18th, 2017 and our guests this week are:<br> <br> Mike Shuster from the great war project blog, <br> Tim Bailey, Director of Education at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History<br> Kenneth Clark, President and CEO of the Pritzker Military Museum and Library<br> And Michael O'Neal with Robert A. Kasprzak from the 100 Cities / 100 Memorials project in Dayton, Ohio sponsored by the League of WW1 Aviation Historians <br> <br> <br> WW1 Centennial News is brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. I’m Theo Mayer - the Chief Technologist for the Commission and your host. Welcome to the show.<br> [MUSIC]<br> Our theme this week is about hunkering down in the midst of a threat. America has declared its martial intent on 1/2 of a world at war, <br> and now it must take both an offensive and defensive poster.<br> Though u-Boats are an endless threat on the seas, there is little chance that the kaiser would land an army in the Chesapeake bay. But there were plenty of threats to worry about… and the Wilson Administration did!<br> One hundred years ago this week, on October 14th, Wilson signs the “Trading with the enemy act” into law. Today, many aspects of this law would be unthinkable including the appointment of an Alien Property Custodian empowered to seize the assets of immigrant’s businesses and not just mom & Pop outfits but national brands.<br> So let’s jump into the wayback machine to see how this plays out starting 100 years ago this week.<br> World War One THEN <br> 100 Year Ago This Week<br> [MUSIC TRANSITION]<br> Welcome to mid October 1917 - President Wilson has just signed the Trading with the Enemy Act into law giving him new broad powers relating to foreign trade. The intent is that no American trade aids can benefit Germany and its allies in any way. Those allies include Austria-hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey - even though America has not actually declared war with those allies.<br> Under the act, German-owned property in the US can be seized, and as enemy property German owned patents can be used without royalty including, for example, the German-owned Bayer company’s patented aspirin pills.<br> Treasury secretary McAdoo gets extensive power to control the exchange of Gold and securities between the US and foreign countries.<br> Meanwhile, the Postmaster General has total censorship over the non-english-language press as well as total control over international communications by telegraph.<br> Interestingly, unlike many of the other wartime acts, the trading with the enemy act will not be repealed after the war and will have lasting impact into the 21st century!<br> As one reads the law - it starts by defining who IS an enemy <br> in essence and simply put, an Enemy is someone we have declared war on. <br> That is simple and makes sense. <br> But the President can also declare any other nation and the citizens of that nation enemies by proclamation. In other words, the friends of my enemy are also my enemy -- <br> And the act reaches deep. For example
